Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWe ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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